The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-03
Grace, 'tis a charming sound,
Harmonious to the ear:
Heaven with the echo shall rcSound,
And all the world shall hear


And all the world shall hear
One of John Bunyans great books is en-
titled "Ahounding Grace 1T Is all of
grace that am saved has been on the lips
of hundreds of dying Christians, The boy
Sammy was right when, being examined
for admission into church membership. he
was asked: Whose work was your saliva
tion. - and he answered Part mine and
part Gods Then the examiner asked
'What part did you do, Sammy" and the
answer was Il opposed God all | could,
and he did the reStn O the height of it,
the depth of it, the length of it, the breadth
of it, the grace of God Mr.. Fletcher hav
ing written a pamphlet that pleased the
king, the king offered to compensate
him, and Fletcher answered. There
is only thing | want and that
hearers, grace to live by and grace TO die
by. Grace that saved the publican, that
saved Lydia, that saved the dying thief,
that saved the jailer, that saved me- But
the riches of that grace will not be fully un-
derstood until heaven breaks in upon the
soul. An old Scotchman, who had been
soldier in one of the European vars, was
sick and dying in one of our American hos
pitfalls His one desire was to see Scotland
and his old home and once again walk the
heather of tho Highlands, and hear the bag
pipes of the Scotch regiments. The night
that the old Scotch soldier died, a young
man, somewhat reckless but kind-hearted,
got a company of musicians to come and
play under the old soldiers window, and
among the instruments there was bag
pipe. The instant that the musi-
clans began the dying old man in delirium
said: whats that, what's thatl Why its
the regiments coming home: That's the
tune, yes, that's the tune, Thank God, |
have got nome once morew "Bonny Scot
land and Bonny Doom, were the last words
he uttered as he passed up to the Highlands
of the better country. And there are here
to-day hundreds homesick for Heaven, some
because you have so many hereavementS'
some because you have so many tempta-
tons, some because you have so many all
ments, homesick, very homesick, for the
fatherland of Heaven, and the music that
YOU want to hear now is the song OF free
grace, and the music you want to hear
when you die is free grace, and forever be
fore the throne of God you Will sing OF the
''grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, who,
though he was rich, for your sakes became
poor!n
Yes. yes: for your sakesl II was not on
pleasure excursion that He came, for it
was all pain 1t was not on astronomical
exploration, for He knew this world as well
before He alighted as afterward. IL was
not because He was compelled to come, for
He volunteered. 1t was not because 1t was
EASY, for He knew that it would be thorn,
and spike, and hunger, and thirst, and vo-
ciferation of angry mobs. For your sakes! :!
Wipe away your tears To forgive your
wrongdoing. to companionship your loneh-
ness, to soothe your sorrows, to sit with you
by the new-made grave, TO bind up your
wounds in the ugly battle with the world
and bring you home at last kindling up the
mists that fall on your dying vision with
the sunlight of a glorious morn. For your
Rkes! No: | will change that Paul Will
not care. and Christ will not care if change
it, for must get into the blessedness of the
text myself and so say For our sakes /"
For we all have our temptations, and be-
reavements, and conflicts. For our sakeS! We
who deserve for our sins to be expatrlated
into a world as much poorer than this earth
was poorer than heaven. For our sakes !!
But what fruitful coming down to take us
gloriously up. When Artaxerxes was hunt
ing, Tirebazus who was attending him
showed the king a rent in his garment
The king said 'How shall ! mend itF'
''Bv giving it to me, said Tirebazus. Then
the king gave him the robe, but commanded
| him never to wear it, as it would be lnap-
| proprjate See the startling and comfort
| inc fact, while our Prince throws off the
| habit he not only allows us TO wear 1t, but
! commends us to wear it, and il will become
us well, anu lOT but iONtl IAto VI Jul oHh ~
! ual state we may put on the splendorS OF
heavenly regalement For our sakes o,
! the personality of this religion! Not
| an abstraction, not an arch under
| which ve walk to behold elaborate
| masonry. not an ice-castle like
| that which Empress Elizabeth, of Russia,
| over hundred years ago ordered con
| structed, winter with its trowe of crystal
| cementing the huge blocks that had been
4 ha frOvan rtNpFg Of the
! north. but a fathers house with d wide
hearth cracking hearty welcome. A re-
! lipion of warmth and inspiration, and light,
! and cheer, something we can take INTO our
| hearts. and homes and business, recreations,
! and ioys and sorrows. Not an unmanage-
able gift like the galley presented to Ptole-
| nv. which required four thousand men to
! row, and its draught OF water was SO great
| that it could not come near the shore, but
something YOU can run up any stream of
| ANNOYANCE, however shallow. Enrichment
| now enrichment forever!
Right about face, for you are going in the
wrong direction. While you are in fa-
vorable mood for it, enter into life. Here
and lust now decide everything that makes
| for peace and heaven. Agassiz says that he
has stood at one place in the Alps where he
| could throw a chip into the waters in one
| direction, and it would roll on into the Ger
man ocean. or he could throw a chip into
| the water in another direction, and it would
reach the Black Sea by the Danube, or he
could throw a chip in another direction and
| il would enter the Mediterranean by
! the Rhone. How far apart the Medt-
| terranean, and the Black Sea,
| and the German Oceani Standing to-
| day on this Alps Of Gospel privilege,
YOU can project your soul into right cur
| rents, and it will roll on into the ocean of
| life, or project it in the wrong direction,
| and it will roll into the sea of death. But
! how far apart the two distances! May God
| help us to appreciate more and more the mo-
| mentous meaning of our text! The seven
wise men Of Greece were chiefly known
! each for one apothegm; Solon for the say
| ing: Know thysef;' Fernandez for the say
ing: Nothing is impossible to industry .
| Chilo for the saying; Consider the end
! Thales for the saying; "Suretyship is the
precursor of RUM And Paul, distinguished
! for thousand utterances. might well afford
to he memorable for the saying: You know
the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that,
though he was rich, yet for your sakes be-
came poor, that ye through His poverty
might be rich.n